Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536–1966

Michael Hechter · University of California Press (1975)

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Introduced 'internal colonialism' as a political-theory category for the structural marginalisation of peripheral ethnic groups by a metropolitan state. The application to Sri Lanka (Wilson 1988, DeVotta 2004, 2022) frames the post-1948 Sinhala-majoritarian order as an internal-colonial structure. Contested in the comparative literature; recorded as one analytical frame, not as a TLTE finding.

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